Leftist journalists remain in a constant state of absolute hysteria over President Donald Trump. They’re scaring their audiences into believing that the “country is in peril” because Trump is taking America down an “authoritarian path” that will keep him in “power for life.”
This past month saw CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley scare students during a commencement address as he told them the “country was in peril,” as the “rule of law,” and “freedom of speech” were “under attack” from the Trump administration.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow insisted that the President wanted to “stay in power for life.” NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker actually asked Trump to his face if he was leading America down an “authoritarian path.”
Celebrities also cursed Trump, some even did it from overseas. Singer Bruce Springsteen blasted the “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration” from a concert stage in England. Rosie O’Donnell (who fled to Ireland) took to her TikTok account to warn that Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” was going to kill “millions.”
The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month:
Kristen Welker to Trump: Are You Taking the Country Down an “Authoritarian Path?”
“People who have lived in countries like the Philippines, Hungary, Russia, they look at some of your actions, going after civil service, going after universities, law firms, the media, they say it’s out of an authoritarian playbook. What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?”
— Moderator Kristen Welker to Donald Trump as aired on NBC’s Meet the Press, May 4.
Trump Trying to “Stay In Power For Life?”
“He [Donald Trump] doesn’t think there should be elections and they are consolidating power, they’re disempowering Congress, ignoring Congress, defunding agencies or closing agencies. That’s Congress’s job, that’s not the President’s job. When they are defying court orders, that’s them saying the courts don’t have authority over the president, that’s consolidating all the power in one man, that’s authoritarianism, and that’s what you do when you don’t ever want to have an election because you want to stay in power for life, and that is what they are trying.”
— MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, May 7.
Scott Pelley Scares Students: “Our Country Is In Peril” from Trump
“Our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack. An insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America....In a moment like this, when our country is in peril, don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you?”
— CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley during a commencement speech at Wake Forest University, May 19.
Are We “Living In a New McCarthy Era” of “Fear and Repression?”
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the adults in the room. He has failed at that miserably, as you saw there from Senator Van Hollen saying he regrets voting for him. Do you share his sentiment, given everything that has happened in this country, that we are living in a new McCarthy era where fear and repression are out there right now in our society?”
— Host Aymen Mohyeldin to Rep. Greg Casar (D) on MSNBC’s The Weekend:Primetime, May 24.
Christiane Amanpour: “I Literally Prepared to Go to America” As If It Was “North Korea”
“When I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago, last week. I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea.”
— PBS host Christiane Amanpour on her podcast Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin, June 3.
“The Blood” of Terror Attack Is “On the Hands of Donald Trump”
“You just round up all the people who you think look like threats. That is remigration. That is ethnic cleansing. That is Donald Trump’s presidency. And that, because you no longer bother to look for people who are guilty or who might be planning heinous acts, you just look for their skin tone and their names, that is why the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.”
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, June 3.
Trump’s “Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution”
“I think what the President is doing, it is a fundamental attack on our Constitution, on the foundation of this country.….When you have a President of the United States who is making it his mission to attack the free press, we should all be concerned, whether we are at PBS or whether we are at MSNBC, because he’s focused on us too.”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS’s News Hour, May 2.
Defiant David Brooks: What News Organization is More “Straight Down the Line” Than PBS?
“If you think the PBS is biased, compared to who? Name one news organization in America — and I shouldn’t be defending us. I get paid by PBS. But I’m going to do it — who’s more straight down the line than we are.”
— New York Times columnist/PBS contributor David Brooks on PBS’s News Hour, May 2.
Donald Trump Has Turned GOP Into a “Kleptocracy”
“The Republican party right now is a kleptocracy. He [Donald Trump] has not turned the country into a kleptocracy yet....This is worse than Teapot Dome. This is worse than Watergate.”
— Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five, May 10.
George Stephanopoulos Never Said This About Biden Family Inc.
“The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors….This unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his family summarized by critics like The Atlantic’s David Frum. ‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency….The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’”
— Moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, June 1.
Jonathan Capehart: Shouldn’t We Be Worried About Trump’s “Mental Acuity?”
“If President Trump is mentally anguished over the editing of a television [60 Minutes with Kamala Harris] interview, why shouldn’t I be concerned about his mental acuity in the office right now and all the crazy stuff he’s doing?”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s The Weekend, June 1.
Jeffrey Goldberg: It’s Not that We Covered-Up for Biden, It’s That the Audience Is Stupid
“I don’t understand how this narrative is developed….that the media was covering for Biden. I think what might be going on here is a lack of understanding about how reporting works.”
— Host Jeffrey Goldberg on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, May 23.
Trump Released Biden Memory Lapse Tape to “Distract” From “Disastrous First 100 Days”
“It’s clear to me that President Trump released the [Special Counsel Robert Hur/President Joe Biden] tape because he’s trying to distract from his disastrous — unprecedented disastrous first 100 days.”
— CBS News political contributor/former VP Kamala Harris communications director Ashley Etienne on NBC’s Meet the Press, May 18.
Katie Couric: “There’s No Such Thing as True Objectivity”
“Pointing out the facts and what is really happening is automatically interpreted as being biased, right? And, and of course, I think there’s no such thing a true objectivity, but having said that, — you know I really struggle with that.”
— Former NBC’s Today show co-host and CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Next Question podcast, May 15.
How Can American Catholics Support a President Who is “Antithetical” to “Teachings of Jesus Christ?”
“What do American Catholics do when they have an American pope who speaks - you know - the teachings of Jesus Christ….and yet they’ve been supporting a man [Donald Trump] who is antithetical to all of those things?”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS’s News Hour, May 9.
David Brooks Likens Musk to Pol Pot, Mao & Stalin: His “Legacy” Is “Millions” Dead
“There are mass murderers in the world, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin. We don’t have anybody on the list from America. And I don’t think it’s the same as committing the kind of genocide they did. But by taking away that [USAID] agency and being at least semi-responsible for the deaths of probably, by the end of this, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, that’s Elon Musk’s legacy.”
— New York Times columnist/PBS contributor David Brooks on PBS’s News Hour, May 30.
Sunny Hostin: Elon Musk’s Cutbacks Took “300,000 Lives” Mostly “Children”
“The damage that he did was just really incredible. He slashed 250,000 federal employees, more than 8,500 contract, more than 10,000 grants and his cutbacks on medical research cost the live – for the foreign aid, cost 300,000 lives mostly children. That’s the damage that Elon Musk did.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 4.
Whoopi: Why is It “Important to Know” About Biden’s Decline Now?
“So should anonymous sources who talked to [Jake] Tapper have spoken up about their concerns while he [Joe Biden] was in office - while he was in still in office? And my other question is, why is this important to know now?”
— Co-host Whoopi Goldberg on ABC’s The View, May 20.
Dean Obeidallah: “They Want Trump As a Dictator”
“This really is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One that we believe in is freedom. The United States of America with due process and their vision, which is an autocracy and that really — what we’re dealing with, or easier than that, a dictatorship. They want Trump as the dictator of the United States, and we all have to bow down to him.”
— Comedian/MSNBC contributor Dean Obeidallah on MSNBC’s Velshi, May 24.
Bruce Springsteen Bashes Trump’s “Treasonous Administration”
“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.”
— Singer Bruce Springsteen live from the Co-Op Live stage in Manchester, England on May 14.
Rosie O’Donnell: “Millions” Are Going to “Die Early” from Big Beautiful Bill
“Millions of people are gonna go hungry. Millions of people are gonna die early for not getting their medication. Millions of people are going to suffer as a result of the big, beautiful bill….This is the most blatantly corrupt thing that Mango Mussolini has ever come up with.”
— Comedian/former ABC’s The View co-host Rosie O’Donnell on her TikTok account, May 27.
Leslie Jones Rants Against “Racist” and “Evil” “Trump Folks”
“I got a problem with these Trump folks….It’s not that they’re corrupt, although they are. It’s not that they’re evil, although they are. It’s not that they are women-hating, racist, unqualified dickheads, who couldn’t run a Dunkin’ Donuts without burning it down. No, my problem is these people are goofy-ass mother[bleep]! I thought, I thought Reagan was bad, but at least he knew how to talk. I thought Bush was bad, but at least he has a hilarious name! But what do we have now? JD Vance, RFK Jr., and Elon Musk. I cannot believe America is going to be ended by these [bleep] loser incels!”
— Comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, May 14.
Ken Burns: PBS “Puts the Us in the U.S.”
“The enrichment that PBS has brought to my life, to our collective lives is just undisputable. I think PBS is part of the pursuit of happiness machine….This is the Declaration of Independence applied to broadcasting….It’s just one of our crown jewels, like higher education that you mentioned at the beginning, like our national parks. This is who we are. It puts the us in the U.S.”
— Documentarian Ken Burns on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, May 2.
Trump “Might Try to Destroy the World” Before He Dies
“I do think it’s a reasonable theory that Donald Trump is not unlike the spouse of someone who leaves him, perhaps for another. Who then murders their former partner because if they can’t have her, nobody can. And I think Donald Trump and his solipsism may have that relationship with the world. And that this destruction is in part a power play. And also a literal intention of his final out.…I think he might try to destroy the world before he ages out of life.”
— Actor Sean Penn on the Jim Acosta Show podcast, May 1.